My name is Stephanie Woolf and this is the journey of my life as a missionary in the Dominican Republic Santiago Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Friday, June 6, 2014

Wednesday, June 4 - Week 41

Wow I can`t believe it`s June already!! The
time goes by so fast. Sounds like you guys are really busy with lots of fun
things! I`m glad the recital went well and lots of people went! And seminary
graduation too! Dad you must have worked really hard for that! 46 is a ton! I`m
glad you got my letters! And pretty quick this time! I was worried it would
take forever since the letters I sent at Christmas did. Thanks for adding those
friends on FB Mom. Did Ivonne tag me in a photo? She might have put more than one.
But the one with us on the couch... that`s her and Elizabett. We got some sad
news this week. Elizabett moved to Santiago. :( I really wanted to see her
baptism. But that`s okay. 2 lucky missionaries will get her now. My tooth
hasn`t been hurting me really. It only hurts every once in a while. But I`m
going to see the American dentist like on the 9th I think. I`ll talk to Hermana
Douglas. Thanks for asking about the ecclesiastical endorsement. I`ll ask Pres
Douglas closer to the time if he can do it. Haha I didn`t even know there was
an earthquake until now. Dad, for companionship study first we always sing,
pray and recite the missionary purpose, the first vision, D&C section 4,
and D&C 20:37. Then we read from the mission manual and talk about what we
learned in personal study. Then if we have time we study from a book called 12
semanas. It was for our first 12 weeks but Pres. Douglas asked us to keep
studying it. But it`s been a pretty good week, minus Elizabett moving. We had
training on Thursday from Pres and Hermana Douglas which was SO good. We
learned about how to help our investigators meet their baptismal goals and a
scripture chain to use to help them understand how to receive answers to their
prayers. I learned a ton. Afterward we had our interview with Pres. Douglas. We
explained how we wanted to start focusing more on the members. He was totally
on board. He said we could do 2 visits a day to members if we wanted, which is
a ton. We started doing some visits this week with our RS President and it was
really good. One of them that we`ve been visiting has starting having FHE every
week and praying with her family every day! I really hope we can help each one
of them. We`re going to start teaching the missionary lessons to each one so
that they know the main doctrine of the gospel. Our area and the areas of the
elders here are struggling though with investigators. In just the last month my
comp and I have let go of over 20 investigators that weren`t progressing. So
all the missionaries in our zone are going to come to our areas on Saturday to
go contacting to find new investigators for us. Each companionship will contact
at least 3 houses so we will have a TON of people to visit next week. Hopefully
some of them will progress. Ivelice still can`t go to church for her jobs. But
she told us this week that she`ll have paid off all of her debts in 2 months
and then she`s going to drop the jobs and can come to church. So we`ll just
have to wait for her. Jose Manuel is still progressing so we`re going to put a
baptismal date for him next week. So we visit this guy named Nelson, a less
active. Well he LOVES to give us stuff. Usually it`s mangos or avacados (2
things VERY popular here. They grow on every tree). But this week he told us
that he`s waiting for his chicken to get a little fatter and then he`s going to
kill it, clean it, and give it to us. Hahaha. It was so funny. We had an FHE on
Monday with the Elders and a few of their investigators and had a barbeque! It
was so good! I gotta figure out what kind of sauce they use on their chicken.
Anyways... today we had a zone activity! We got permission to watch some movies
so we watched 3! Haha. It was way too much, but it was fun. We watched
Despicable Me 2, Brave, and the Croods. I hadn`t seen the Croods before. It was
pretty good! We also made tacos! :) It was fun. Well that`s been my week.
I`m glad you all are doing well! I love you! Have a great week!